Hi everybody, welcome back to the Be There In 5 Podcast. I'm Kate Kennedy, your host.

I know what you're thinking. Kate, when are you going to deep dive into the 8-year-old

mediocre film featuring Rachel at MacAdams and Channing Tatum called The Vow? The most

compelling story about accident-induced amnesia since Michelle Tanner fell off that

horse? That day is not today, and I'm so sorry. There's a mass confusion when I said

I was reviewing the vow I did a poll I didn't clarify for about 10 hours. A lot of people

I think revisited the film. Some people watched the 9-part docu-series. Wherever you fall,

I'm deeply sorry. The good news is we are going to be covering a group of women who forgot

who they were. It's just not the result of a car accident in the winter of Chicago.

The result is an amnesia that makes the protagonist forget why she married her own husband.

Oh, is that? Today we're talking about the vow on HBO, 9-part docu-series about the

nexium cult. It's a show that goes really in depth into a few members of the nexium cult.

Their ultimate departure from the cult and kind of works backwards, detailing their

slow but steady slide into what was an incredibly problematic, dangerous, manipulative,

and criminal organization. It just leads you asking yourself, like, how do people so innocently

enter something? And the name of professional development, it all seems so harmless and innocuous

at first, to ultimately end up supporting a pyramid scheme of sex slaves who are sleep-to-prime,

whose calorie intake is limited, who are literally on starvation diets, branded in blackmailed,

and utterly obedient to this master who goes by vanguard, who is a literal goober in knee pads

in a sweat band. If I typed in athletic sex offender into, like, Microsoft clip art in the 90s,

this cartoonish man would come up. He is both deeply disturbing and utterly unthreatening all at

once and it's incredibly confusing, and equally just as offensive, not equally, but, you know,

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